hmmm, so they'll bring "Pentium" back?
Is it just to replace Pentium 4/D or is it a new segment?
Will these work on the old 915 and 925 chipsets?

Pentium is not history, its money, more money than anyone can imagine.
They wont just let that money get past.

Could this mean that the yields for the Core2 process are betterthan Intel thought they would be? I mean, the only reason you get budget parts is when your yield is low and you have to disable cache/clock the chip slower etc....

Could this mean that they're wringing so much good product out of their fabs that it's not worth the effort to bring a single-core variant to market?

WRT the Pentium name. Does anyone remember the Chevy Impala SS from the 90's? Bascially a black cop-car with huge tires. It's definitely NOT the 2000's era Impala, which is a respectable front-drive famiy car. But branding IS important. "Pentium" alone is worth $$$. BTW, I would put my P4-C "Northwood" against ANY AMD of its era. So let's quit pretending the last 5 years have been all AMD. Intel took its beating for all of about 18-24 months. Now they're waaaay ahead.

Wow maybe u missed it but AMD is dead in the water! 4x4 is slower, hotter, uses 30% more electricity ands not even here yet! Mean while the QX6600 is out next month - lol! Misery loves company and AMD had its moment. No amount magazine and Internet bios will save the poor products made by AMD! By the way the QX6600 will run at over 3 ghz thats 2x amd 62's - with p4 cooling techniques.

My New Years prediction:

The new indicator is dell - when dell switches then you know its time to sell your AMD stock! 5 years from now when dell switches back you know to sell your intel stock? M Dell is the B Gates of Hardware - I predict he will quit and volunteer work like B.G!

Like Zepplain - time to "Ramble On"

You AMD guys never stop do ya! Pentium 4 garbage? First, AMD got lucky for 1 year or so. Let me explain, the deep pipe line of the Pentium chip was designed for 10 ghz - the reason it did not work was unforeseen leakage. That is, at a certain point a electrons pass through the insulating part of the chip. Now, Intel realized this in 2003 and designed the core system a shorter pipe line like AMD. If this unforeseen leakage had not happened AMD's new chips would still be like sempron - slow slow doggie! Sure P4's get hot but sill at 4.25ghz a 3.6ghz chip games pretty good. In fact i just shipped a 3.2 E6700 based system will kick any AMD system out there but i am typing on my 2003 p4 3ghz shuttle running 3.5ghz yes over 3 years old. guess what no lag, music is playing, spysweeper is sweeping, my avg is doing its free thing - try that on any AMD chip made in 2003!

Now that the X6800 i have here is running over 4 ghz - no amd can match that! My QX6700 is waiting for its 680i chipset board to arrive (asus striker) by the way do not use any 5 series nvidia chipsets they run so hot - total garbage. Well, my new direct x system with qx6700 will be 2 years a head of AMD's dreams!

O ya, back to my P4 3.0c its still runs most games (yes - not oblivion) but most, fine, while i listen to music!

Well - just remember how many light bulbs Edison made before he stumbled on to carbon then tungsten - the P4 is a stepping stone.

( 800 series +900 series)/ p4 = qx core series (or AMD's last rights!)